Author's note: Hi everyone! Here's another chapter of this fan fiction (finally). HUGE thanks go out to Pokegirl360, possibly my biggest fan, thanks to Bioniclefan234 and 100-percent-Empoleon, they heeded my plea for ideas and thank you to Mammondaughter, I'm going to put some of your idea into the story, but later on, I think. So thank you very much, you three! Thanks also to my other reviewers so far: Sky Blue Storm, Silver rosebud, ThunderRiver411, risen truth ruthless lies, gjeorg, fpejgp, fogoaerg, bjspog, and random reviewers. Thanks for all your reviews! I have played the pokémon mystery dungeon games, Pokegirl360, and I would recommend them to anyone who likes pokémon. They are pretty awesome, and even when the main story is finished, you still have many things you can do! They're like a never-ending story. Pokegirl360, and anyone else who wants to know, Labyrinth is an awesome movie about a girl named Sarah that wishes her baby brother, Toby, away to the Goblin King Jareth (played by the awesome, amazing, handsome, once popular singer, David Bowie!) and she has to solve Jareth's Labyrinth in order to get Toby back. But what nobody knew was that the Goblin King had fallen in love with the girl. She constantly spurns his love, and it is kind of sad. I hate the character Sarah for it. All Jareth wanted was for Sarah to love him back. It is kind of a musical; Jareth (aka David Bowie) sings a lot about his love for Sarah. Then there are two songs that are silly kid songs, 'Magic Dance' and 'Chilly Down'
Chapter 8: Gengar and …Dusknoir?
I walked behind Grovyle, lost in thought. It seemed weird that the first person I ran into after learning the secret of the planet's paralysis also knew the secret. It seemed too coincidental. And I don't believe in coincidences. Something still didn't seem right about Grovyle. I got the feeling that he was still hiding things from me, but I didn't know what. I couldn't tell if his secret was just a personal thing or if it could potentially hurt me.
I hurried to catch up with him, wanting to ask him about it, when I heard a loud roar. I looked up and saw a huge, very angry looking Dragonite. My eyes widened. "Grovyle, look out!" I cried, but too late. The Dragonite dove, its mouth open wide, filled with razor-sharp fangs, and its sharp claws glinting coldly, spread out. I sped up and jumped in front of Grovyle, knocking the Dragonite out of the air, inches from Grovyle's death.
I will give Grovyle this; he jumped into action immediately, which is more than I can say for myself. For a moment I lay on the ground, unhurt but shocked, first by my own bravery, and second, the fierceness of the Dragonite. That pokémon had been aiming to kill, not merely drive us off. I watched for a second, still shell-shocked, as Grovyle leapt into action. I watched as he jumped on top of the Dragonite's head and started clawing it with sharp claws.
The Dragonite threw him off and started prowling towards him, poised to attack at any second. Grovyle rolled with the movement, landing back on his feet and immediately unleashing a torrent of leaves, the RazorLeaf attack. The Dragonite roared in pain as the razor-sharp leaves cut across its skin. It roared again, this time huge blue and purple flames coming from its maw, the DragonBreath attack. It was then that I too leapt to my feet and unleashed a DragonBreath of my own. The Dragonite reeled back in agony, whining. I unleashed another DragonBreath, hoping to finish the fight. But the Dragonite just wasn't giving up. It suddenly stood straight, its head raised to the sky. I wondered briefly what it was doing, when I felt myself being dragged backwards. I fought for a minute before Grovyle's voice breathed from behind me.
"It's just me! We need to get out of here!" his voice was full of anxiety and fear. "It's going to use DracoMeteor!" I flinched. I knew that move. In one of the many mystery dungeons Dusknoir and I had traversed, there had been a multitude of dragon-type pokémon. One of them, a particularly vicious Gabite, had used the selfsame move on us. Huge meteors had come from the sky and rained down on us. I had gotten knocked out on the spot, and if Dusknoir hadn't been there, I wouldn't have made it out alive.
Grovyle stopped pulling me backwards and spun me around. "Come on! Follow me. We'll have to go through that mystery dungeon to get out of here." He said hurriedly, and ran (hopped?) off. I hurried after him.
I could still hear the roar of the enraged Dragonite as we dove into the dungeon. Then I heard an earsplitting 'CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!' as the meteors hit the ground. I watched, eyes wide, as huge meteors the size of Dusknoir (who is 7' 03 by the way) flew past the opening of the dungeon. I turned to Grovyle, my shocked expression making him chuckle in amusement. I glared at him before turning to look at the room we had entered in the dungeon.
"Um, do you know what dungeon we're in?" I asked, not recognizing the terrain. There were high steep walls of stone, and here and there were little pools of water. The ground was grassy and level and I couldn't see any pokémon as far as I could see. Grovyle gave me a funny look.
"This is the same dungeon I found you in." I shook my head in wonder.
"Wow, I guess Mystery dungeons really do change. I have never gone into the same dungeon twice before." I replied. I turned to look at him. He was also looking around, examining the exits to the room and keeping an eye out for enemy pokémon. I wondered who this pokémon was. I mean, I knew his name, and that his father was on the Planetary Investigation Team, but not much more than that.
For some reason, I felt a connection to Grovyle. I wanted to know about him, I wanted to know his history; I wanted to know everything about this pokémon. I instinctively felt like I could trust him, but that same instinct had led me to believe Dusknoir's lies, so I wasn't going to rely on that any time soon.
But this wasn't the time to ask him. I was still tired from Gengar's earlier attack, from the Dragonite's attack. Grovyle seemed to be thinking along the same lines, and he suggested, "Why don't we rest for a while, then we can go and deal with Gengar?" I nodded my head. I sat down and leaned against the wall and closed my eyes.
Next thing I knew, Grovyle was shaking me awake. "Haley! Wake up! Gengar is here! Hurry!" I opened my eyes, startled. Gengar was just entering the room and I hurriedly scrambled to my feet. He gave a nasty laugh when he saw the two of us.
"I thought I'd find you here. I was right after all," He said to someone behind him. He came forward and I gasped as none other than Dusknoir floated out from behind him. His eyes narrowed when he saw me.
"So you managed to get through this dungeon after all. Impressive. But I always knew that you were stronger than most." He complimented me. I glared at him and spat,
"I don't want your praise Dusknoir. I want my life back!" Dusknoir's eye flashed.
"Too late!" He snapped back. "You have sworn yourself to Primal Dialga. There's no going back on your word!" Beside me, Grovyle gasped. He turned to me.
"You're one of Dialga's agents? You lied to me!" He shouted.
"Grovyle, no! I would never lie to you! I'm not one of Dialga's agents, no matter what Dusknoir or Dialga thinks! I will never work for him. I agreed only because I didn't realize that I would be expected to kill people!" I added to Dusknoir. He sneered at me.
"Is this your answer then, Haley? You absolutely refuse to obey Dialga? You refuse to obey me?" I glared at him.
"Never!" He scowled.
"Then so be it. You've chosen destruction. Prepare to die." He floated towards me, then said to Grovyle, "You –Grovyle!" Grovyle turned his cold gaze onto Dusknoir.
"What?" He spat. Dusknoir's eye flashed again.
"Careful now. Don't be disrespectful or I'll be forced to destroy you as well. Are you in league with this human? Are you willing to die for her? If not, turn around and walk out now. This is the only chance you will get, so make the right choice." I watched Grovyle, waiting for him to walk out on me. He looked over at me. I braced myself for it, for him to abandon me to my fate, but to my surprise, he didn't.
Instead, he turned to Dusknoir and said, "No." Dusknoir looked at him. I choked.
"No! Grovyle, don't! Leave, please! It's the only way! Do you want to die?" I said worriedly. Whatever Dusknoir was going to do to me, I did NOT want Grovyle involved. He had suffered enough because of me. He had saved my life and I didn't want to be responsible for his death.
Grovyle looked at me. "I won't abandon you."
"Oh really? Are you sure you're prepared to die for this human?" Dusknoir asked. I glared at him. I opened my mouth to deliver a stinging retort, but Grovyle beat me to it.
"Yes. Yes I am. She is no ordinary human and you know it Dusknoir!" Dusknoir glared at Grovyle.
"This is the last time I will offer this," He began threateningly. "Leave now or die with the human."
"I have a name!" I hissed. Both pokémon ignored me and stared each other down. Their gazes were locked as enemies, and I got the feeling that this may not have been the first time.
'Do they know each other?' I wondered incredulously, and I received my answer from Dusknoir.
"It is you, Grovyle! I've been searching for you for quite some time now." Dusknoir exclaimed. His eye was focused on the leaf atop Grovyle's head, and I looked at it for the first time. I noticed a huge scar down the middle of it, ripped in places, and I wondered where Grovyle had gotten such a vicious scar, and wondered why I hadn't noticed it before. Dusknoir smirked at the sight of the scar. Then he said something completely unexpected.
"Well done Haley. You've led him straight into our little trap. You're losing your touch Grovyle. It was too easy to get you here. You're too trusting!" Dusknoir sneered at Grovyle's shocked face.
"What?" He exclaimed. He turned to me, his eyes burning with shocked betrayal. "You tricked me? It was all a lie?" I stared at Dusknoir, completely shocked at his trickery. I knew he was cunning, but I had never imagined him this evil. I opened my mouth to deny it, but Dusknoir gestured at me from behind Grovyle's back, and I found myself unable to talk. I was mouthing the words, but no sound was coming out.
I stopped trying to talk to Grovyle and glared at Dusknoir. He ignored me and went on taunting Grovyle. "Oh it's true all right, but she must have gotten attached to you, look at her shame!" He said, and in that moment, I truly hated him. I wanted to lunge at him and make him stop saying those awful words, but I was too much of a coward to move, too shocked at the betrayal I had seen in Grovyle's eyes.
Dusknoir had stopped taunting Grovyle, for he was not listening. Instead, he had gotten into a fighting position, clearly willing to go down fighting. I admired his bravery, but shook my head at his foolishness. No one could stand up to Dusknoir and win. It was hopeless.
"So you're going to fight, even knowing it's futile?" asked Dusknoir, echoing my thoughts.
"You expected anything less?" Grovyle asked defiantly. Dusknoir shook his head.
"You are truly foolish. Very well, I'll defeat you now, and then take you to Dialga. It doesn't matter to me." I shook my head. Even if Grovyle thought I betrayed him, I was not going to let him go down alone. I hurried forward, blocking Grovyle from Dusknoir. I tried to speak, and thankfully I had my voice back.
"I won't allow you to do that, Dusknoir." I said. Dusknoir glared at me.
"Move aside, foolish human!" He said. I shook my head.
"You never used to call me that, why start now? My name is HALEY! H-A-L-E-Y! HALEY! Say it, HALEY!" I shouted at him. Dusknoir laughed cruelly at me.
"You never used to be such a drama queen. Where did that come from?" He sneered at me. I glared at him. I had had enough of him. I lunged at him, and used shadow ball before he could blink. He staggered back, but shook it off and used shadow punch on me, and I flew back against the cave wall, and slumped down it. I groaned. That had HURT.
"You were a fool to think you could beat me, Haley." I heard Dusknoir's voice above me, and I struggled to open my eyes. As my eyes slowly, torturously opened, I realized that he was floating above me. When my eyes opened, he drew back one of his overlarge hands to deliver another shadow punch, but before he could, a green streak smashed into him, throwing him against the wall. Grovyle had used quick attack and now he quickly used leaf blade, cutting into Dusknoir's body armor. Dusknoir threw him off, but Grovyle landed lightly on his feet. They started fighting more intensely, too quick for my eyes to see, but I could tell that Grovyle was holding his own. I made myself get up and move out of the range of their fighting.
That's when I noticed that Gengar was still in the room, and he was edging closer and closer to the fight. I knew that he was going to attack Grovyle from behind, and then he would be fighting two enemies. I hurried forward and blocked Gengar from entering the fight. He laughed in my face.
"What are you going to do, puny human spirit?" He hissed in his ghostly voice that sent chills down my spine. "What can you do to me, a ghost?" His red eyes stared straight into mine, and I shivered, but I held my ground.
"You will not touch Grovyle!" I said, and I used a quick shadow ball. Gengar was not as powerful as Dusknoir, and he screamed as the super-powerful move hit him square in the chest, forcing him back. I kept using shadow balls, keeping on the offensive since I knew I had no hope of blocking his attacks. Every once in a while he was able to use one of his moves on me, but he was so focused on dodging my attacks that they were rather poorly aimed, so I was able to keep out of the way of most of them. However, I was growing tired and I knew I couldn't keep this up for long, so I stopped suddenly, keeping my hands behind my back so he wouldn't see what I was doing. Gengar was definitely the worse for wear for our fight, and he glared at me, but I could tell that he was tired too from all the attacks I had hit him with.
"You will pay for what you have done!" he threatened, and I laughed at him.
"Oh I will, will I? And what exactly, pray tell, have I done?" I mocked him. He glared at me, and then without warning, he leaped at me. "I don't think so!" I yelled, and I quickly lashed out my hands, releasing a giant shadow ball from behind my back. During our little conversation, I had been storing up energy and forming an extra-large shadow ball. It hit him straight in the chest, and he howled as he was thrown across the room, and he hit the opposite wall and lay still. I walked over to him, still wary of an attack, but when I got to him, I quickly realized that he was dead.
As I stared down at my enemy's blank face, I didn't notice the sounds around me until I was thrown to the ground by Grovyle being thrown into me by Dusknoir. We rolled, and somehow I got tangled in the mess of leaves that grew on Grovyle's body, and we lay there for a minute, me trying to get untangled while Grovyle cursed and winced.
"Sorry!" I said apologetically. Grovyle just shot me a glare and tried to get back up, only to sink back to the floor with a groan. I realized that he had a large gash on his chest and several cuts marred his body. I leaned over him, trying to see all of his cuts and see which needed the most attention besides the large gash on his chest, but he pushed me back and growled,
"Stay away from me, traitor!" I glared at him. Surely, after everything I had tried to do, killing Gengar and trying to protect him from Dusknoir, he surely couldn't still believe that lie? But the menacing glare he gave me was answer enough. Yes, yes he could, and did, believe the lie. I turned away from him, shaking my head, to look at Dusknoir.
He towered over us, smirking as he watched Grovyle struggle to get up. "Had enough, Grovyle?" He sneered. Grovyle shot him a glare as; once again, he tried to get up and failed. Dusknoir smiled triumphantly. "I'll take that as a yes." He floated forward to grab Grovyle, but I blocked him. I said nothing, just stood over Grovyle protectively. Dusknoir snorted impatiently.
"Get out of the way Haley!" He snarled at me.
"No, I won't!" I snapped back. "He hasn't done anything wrong!"
"That you've seen!" Dusknoir snapped back. "He's going to kill us all!"
"What do you mean?" I asked warily, guessing the answer.
"He is going to fix time! I've told you, if someone fixes time, we will all die! Is that what you want, Haley? Millions of pokémon to die because of this Grovyle?" He snapped, sounding almost desperate. "Move out of the way, now, or I'll do it for you!"
"NO! You'll have to kill me!" I said defiantly. Dusknoir's eye flashed.
"You leave me no choice then." He punched me, and I groaned and fell to my knees. But I still didn't move. He brought back his fist again, but out of nowhere a streak of gray and black barreled into him from the side.
"Mightyena!" Grovyle gasped. I followed the black-and-grey streak as it skidded to a halt in front of Dusknoir. It was indeed a Mightyena, a large one with huge claws. It looked over at Grovyle for a second before returning its gaze onto Dusknoir.
"Still picking on pokémon smaller than you, Dusknoir?" It snarled, its voice revealing that it was male. Dusknoir glared at the Mightyena, incensed.
"You! What are you doing here?" He snapped.
"Not just him, the whole Gold Squad!" A female voice shouted from the cave's entrance. We all looked over and saw a Mawile, a Nidoking, a Nidoqueen, a Houndour, and an Ursaring standing in front of the cave, looking very impressive from my point of view. The Mawile had been the one to speak, and now all of the pokémon advanced threateningly upon Dusknoir.
Dusknoir looked scared. For the first time since I had known him, he looked truly scared. He knew that while he was more powerful than each of these pokémon alone, and he could probably take down a couple, there was no way that he could beat all of these pokémon.
"Fine then, Mightyena! You've won today, but next time I will take you down! Both of you, Mightyena and Grovyle alike!" He snarled before fading away into the wall, presumably to flee. Mightyena looked triumphant, but he didn't say anything. The Nidoking, on the other hand, was gloating at the top of his lungs.
"Did you see that?" He rumbled in his powerful voice. "We had him running at the first sight of us! Ha! He's no match for us alone!" I rolled my eyes.
"You're lucky he didn't have his Sableye with him." I commented, struggling to my feet. "Things could have gotten nasty." All the pokémon turned to me and let out a collective gasp. "What?" I asked. "Have you never seen a human before?"
The Mightyena shook his head. "It isn't that. It's that the only human that we have seen before… you are the striking image of her! But … Dusknoir called you Haley. Are you related to Regina Roane?" I raised my eyebrows.
"That's my mom," I said. "But how do you know her? I thought Grovyle said she was on the Planetary Investigation Team." The Mightyena started laughing, as did all of the Gold Squad.
"What?" I demanded. "What's so funny?" After a while, Mightyena stopped laughing and said,
"We are the Planetary Investigation Team!"
Author's note: So how did you like the chapter? I hope it was up to scratch! Please, review! Let me know you guys are still reading, sorry for the delay, like I said I had writer's block, and I was waiting for my dad to fix my internet. Anyways, now I need to give a character bio, don't I? Hmmm, should I do Grovyle or Gengar? I think Grovyle; you guys are dying to know more about him, I'm sure. Ok that's settled.
Random fact # 6: So Grovyle's story is really sad. Pull out your tissues. When Grovyle was still a Treecko, his dad was being hunted by Dusknoir, and when he caught up with them, Treecko was forced to watch his dad die before his eyes, and when he tried to protect his dad's body, Dusknoir just punched him aside, and he ended up unconscious against a tree. Dusknoir just left him there, and he was found by Ninetales and Vulpix from the PIT. (Ninetales is the PIT's leader, and Vulpix is his mate, she just hasn't evolved yet) They brought him back to the PIT's base and raised him to be a good pokémon. One day he evolved and that's when he vowed to avenge his dad and fix time. Eventually, events led to Dusknoir and Grovyle meeting again, and Dusknoir didn't recognize him at first. Then Grovyle revealed who he was, and what he planned to do, and Dusknoir attacked him. He left the scar you read about in this chapter, and Grovyle barely escaped with his life. Grovyle was living near the cave, hoping he'd catch Dusknoir off guard one day, in reality. He did protect a lot of pokémon from Gengar though, so it wasn't all in vain.
